For thy peepage and collagical repastimage.

here is some fodder for the second timeline. i havent scrapped it into my notebook yet.

this is an underlay for a sectional sketch to develop the content of timeline one.

here is the fodder file so you can have the source images.

on these bound blue lines, with such clear definitions, on this stack of cards i will write, in words, what could not be writ in the haphazard lines and shades of the draughtsman’s pencil, the cad jockey’s click, at least not by fragments of people, barely speaking, and not over the months that eclipse into earlier darkness, when they arrive home to their desks in darkness to cough out shapes, not so quickly as those craven predetermined rote forms, i wanted to see architecture itself, as a practice, ruined, and what it wrought ruined, and i wanted it to slide onto the paper in such a way as to belie its infancy, i wanted it immediately ancient, with us erased, so that the ruinous history given to the people all at once could be immediately claimed by them, broken down, individuated, owned by anybody but me, i wanted this nightly sacrifice of my own time, my sleepless hours, my self worth to be pushed toward so much nothing that i could not be blamed for it, all of these years working out backwards why i should not have the power to put something before you, but done in the only way i know how, through perpetual creation that now continues in these cards where i sift through the ruins of an aspiration that never got to the point where it could be broken down again, by time, and by someone other than me, i give myself two weeks.

• john ruskin, albert speer, critical plagiarism
• occupying ruins, ruins occupying
• disenfranchised/discriminated: ghosts, wampyrs, small pox, louis kahn
• “culturally pluristic representation of society”: phes, minorities, mobile elderly, people who read whilst walking
• ahistorical, speaks through character and type over form
• friendly residential face? art is explication of lore, not moderation of tradition
• “water related transportation infrastructure”, dangerous supplement?
• castelvecchio v. interior/museumized digs
• “bldg constrct’d materials from island quarry by inmates”: sustainable and eerie
• a.w.n. pugin, renwick, adaptive revival
• include kahn’s memorial
• this is for the people, cannot take a park away from the people
• “quarantine”, burial at sea
• “19th c gothic romance”, wuthering heights, castle of otranto
• “charity cases in wards on lower flrs and a series of prvt rooms upper stories for paying patients”: not universal design, counter the classist history
• grey gneiss, pointed arches, crenellated cupola
• “garden fabrics”, not a folly, somewhere between useful and curiousity
• 13th century tintern abbey in monmouthshire, palazzo braschi in frascati (setting for la notti del terrore)
• sleeve’d crumbling walls, decay is a form of articulation
• no dogs are allowed on the island, read: only cats
• “1/100 people who died in nyc in 1854 died at renwick”
• 1839: octagon tower at lunatic asylum, designed by ajackson 1982: octagon tower is torched 1999: labor day fire ravages octagon pavilion
• fireworks viewing platform, large theater walls disappear, ruins roof has disappeared

balance the chances of occupants getting the full mileage out of a dwelling against the certainty that one day abandonment and demolition will befall it.

the hope would be that, a building’s quality and precognition would enable it to meet all uses perpetually, however, it seems likely that, eventually, all usefulness will come to an end. if the building were demolished and its component pieces placed into other uses or recycled, it would be acceptable. as a failsafe, however, perhaps it is appropriate to construct something that degrades after a certain period � the project life of the program - from materials that will less of a trace as they seep back into the earth destroyed by exposure.